Sublime

When you are a westerner living on the East Coast, this is just the sort of folksy anecdote the city slickers expect you to tell. But I was the worst Montanan in history.

The man of this school goes first to a political meeting, where he complains that savages are treated as if they were beasts; then he takes his hat and umbrella and goes on to a scientific meeting, where he proves that they practically are beasts.

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un-English style of life. For me she became the archetypal representative of relaxed, urbane society seasoned with wit and fantasy—which is what I would like to be understood by the word “civilization.” Francis Croshaw was a

The Wide Weird World of Shorty Petterstein (World Pacific). With Jordan Belsen, the filmmaker, he

you do need to be careful how you fill out checks, because banks carefully ration them. When you’ve run out, you need to go to the bank and request another checkbook, then come back and pick it up in person. And people ask me what I do all day…

I won't eat in a restaurant with filthy bathrooms.

In my short experience of litter in the Lubéron, the French themselves were the most likely offenders, but no Frenchman would accept that. At any time of the year, but particularly in the summer, it was well known that foreigners of one stripe or another were responsible for causing most of the problems in life. The Belgians, so it was said, were t